VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING LAB FOR ON-LINE DISTANCE LEARNING （下）_计算机网络论文.docVIP

VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING LAB FOR ON-LINE DISTANCE LEARNING （下）_计算机网络论文 VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING LAB FOR ON-LINE DISTANCE LEARNING （下）_计算机网络论文 The CSA can be designed as a proxy object to a normal Web browser. To configure the Web browser to enable the WebVL, the user simply configures his/her browser to use locally executed CSA daemon by setting the proxy server as 127.0.1 or localhost. The CSA acts as a mediator between the Web browsers normal Http request/reply and WebVL services on the network. This approach requires no re-invent of a new Web browser. Various task-scheduling techniques with load sharing can be used by the CSA to dispatch the students request to a suitable site in the WebVL environment for connection. There are several solutions to the problem of providing transparent access to scalable services provided by a group of servers and sharing the load between the different servers. Examples are DNS Aliasing, HTTP redirect, Magic Routers, fail-safe TCP and Active Networks [Ami98, Car99, Yos97]. The interaction between the student and the software is largely supported by Web server and client extensions. Information and feedback can be facilitated by HTML push/pull mechanisms and techniques for local processing of small, embedded applications such as Java Applet. On the other hand, techniques based on the use of forms within HTML documents to let clients initiate and interact with server-side applications enable us to create appropriate tools that can interface Web browsers to software applications. For example, using the forms facility and CGI scripts (Common Gateway Interface), we can build CSA on the Lab servers which provide runtime services to WebVL related requests/replies. The CGI script in Java is called Java servlets, which are Java programs that run in a Java-enabled web server in response to an HTTP request. The web server runs the servlet, and the servlet outputs an HTML page that the server returns to the client [Cam99]. Depending on the lab software